Dave & Chuck the Freak talk about a woman who was killed after a giant Denny's sign fell down due to strong winds and crushed her car.
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00:00We're going to play our first ever, and you'll love this, Lisa, Dark-Sided Game.
00:09Okay.
00:10Oh, wow.
00:11How did this old broad die?
00:14What?
00:15All right, let's hear it.
00:17That seems like a lot of fun.
00:19Yes.
00:21Yeah.
00:22Darth is thrilled.
00:23Okay.
00:24He's probably going to be good at this.
00:25We've never heard of this.
00:26Never heard of this.
00:30Never heard of?
00:30Never heard of this.
00:31Okay, watch this.
00:34Bridge.
00:35Oh.
00:37Crushed.
00:38Crushed.
00:39Crushed.
00:39By a damage.
00:41By a compactor.
00:43The railroad track thing.
00:45No.
00:46Crushed.
00:47By one of those drawbridges.
00:49By a giant Denny sign.
00:55Nope, we've never heard of that.
00:57What a way to go.
00:58I mean that.
00:58We would never have guessed that.
00:59No.
01:00How are you going to guess that?
01:01Is that crazy?
01:02That's crazy.
01:03Is that crazy or what?
01:05Yeah, that's.
01:06Crushed to death by a giant Denny sign.
01:10Yep.
01:10What?
01:12Wrong place, wrong time.
01:13I mean, there is no.
01:15Were they in their car?
01:17Yes.
01:17Okay, they were sitting in their car.
01:19And Denny sign.
01:20Oh.
01:21Smush.
01:21Grand slam.
01:22Oh, that's tragic.
01:25Yeah.
01:26Unexpected.
01:27What can you do?
01:28Freak accident.
01:28No, nothing.
01:30Just try and lift it, I guess.
01:32Here's the report on this tragic tale.
01:35Mmm.
01:35From WDRB TV.
01:38Hope it's full of puns from the Denny's menu.
01:41Rudy, tootie, fresh and fruity.
01:42I hope so, too.
01:43Let's find out.
01:43It's back.
01:43It's back.
01:44Denny's claims safety is a top priority for the restaurant chain after a falling sign killed a 72-year-old woman in Elizabethtown.
01:53WDRB's Grace Habes shares what we're learning about the victim, Lillian Curtis.
01:57Grace?
01:58This surveillance video captured the moment a strong wind gust knocks over the sign above the Denny's, sending it tumbling to the ground where it landed on top of a car.
02:08Inside that car, 72-year-old Lillian Curtis, her husband Lloyd, and their daughter.
02:13All three of them had to be cut out of the crushed car and taken to the hospital.
02:17A few hours later, Lillian died.
02:20Lloyd is still recovering in the hospital, and he had actually just been released a few days ago after having open heart surgery.
02:27The couple's daughter, Mary Kay Graham, was also hurt, but has since been released from the hospital.
02:32Family tells WDRB News the three were headed to Columbia, Kentucky.
02:36Witnesses say the car was in motion when that sign suddenly fell.
02:42How high?
02:43So these are the ones, right, that you'll see from the freeway.
02:46They want to let you know that there's a Denny's there and there's a Wendy's there and all that.
02:49So they're massive.
02:50How high would you say these signs are?
02:5330 feet?
02:54Oh, I think that's higher than that.
02:56I think it's, yeah, like 70 feet?
02:59I was thinking like 100 feet.
03:01That's what I would think.
03:02So Lloyd survived it.
03:05Lloyd, so far.
03:06He's the new owner of Denny's.
03:07He is.
03:09It's now called Lloyd's.
03:12I'll take Lloyd's Grand Slam.
03:14Oh, that's why I shouldn't say that.
03:15Well, now we can buy a whole bunch of those King's Hawaiian rolls.
03:17Oh, man.
03:18I was posing with some of them in that.
03:19Yeah.
03:20Welcome to Lloyd's.
03:21How can we help you?
03:22What's his wife's name?
03:23What was his wife's name?
03:25Pancake.
03:26Oh, James.
03:27It was Lloyd and Lillian, right?
03:29That's right, Lillian.
03:30Lillian and Lloyd.
03:31Do you want the Lillian special?
03:32It's three pancakes.
03:33That's terrible.
03:34Lloyd had just had a heart surgery.
03:37Yeah.
03:37And then a Denny sign killed his lady.
03:40Jesus, the poor Lloyd.
03:42Yeah.
03:43Lloyd wasn't doing great.
03:45It's going to be a lawsuit, that's for sure.
03:46Oh, absolutely.
03:47This morning, Denny says he's working to understand what led up to an Elizabethtown sign tumbling
03:52onto a car, killing a woman, and hurting two others.
03:56The signs don't just say Lloyd's now?
03:59Yeah, they do.
04:01We'll know why when we see it.
04:05I don't mean to laugh, because it's horrible.
04:07It's horrible.
04:08It is horrible.
04:09It's terrible.
04:10The Denny sign crushed Lillian.
04:14It's how she wanted to go.
04:15Lloyd's Lillian.
04:16It's how, you know.
04:17And look at the pictures they got of them during bedtime.
04:18He's holding some Hawaiian roles.
04:20Why?
04:21They're happy people.
04:22They like them.
04:23Listen, this is one of those good moments where at the eulogy and whatever, they can say
04:27that she died doing what they loved.
04:29Yeah.
04:29I love that one of the guys they interviewed has a hat on that says, long live Slyton.
04:33He's an employee at the White Castle.
04:34It's probably a great deal.
04:35He's a White Castle guy.
04:36You know, Lloyd wanted to be here, obviously.
04:40And, you know, we're all just praying for him.
04:42You know, it's a real shame.
04:45Inexplicably, a Denny sign was blown by the wind and crushed Lillian.
04:49They say that God is great.
04:52And he is.
04:53But apparently he also is one twisted, twisted up guy.
04:59Lloyd and Lillian love Denny's.
05:03Listen, have you ever thought one of those signs would have been?
05:06Don't ever fall.
05:072,600 pounds.
05:08No.
05:08It's actually 80 feet tall.
05:10Okay.
05:11And, yeah, 2,600 pounds.
05:14Yeah.
05:14I never would have guessed they were that heavy.
05:16So there's an office somewhere where somebody was sitting there, and they're in the PR department
05:21of Denny's.
05:22Yeah.
05:23And somebody came running in and was like, you're not there.
05:26Oh, my God.
05:27Oh, my God.
05:28You're not going to believe it.
05:28What?
05:29Calm down.
05:30Okay.
05:31Calm down, for God's sake.
05:32Well, it's not like we're going to name Denny's something else.
05:34This sign was blown over in Kentucky, and it crushed a lady named Lillian.
05:37What?
05:38And it hurt a man named Lloyd who just had open heart surgery.
05:40What?
05:40Calm down.
05:41You're crazy.
05:42That never happened.
05:43A sign had been blown down.
05:44Stop it.
05:45I've got an idea.
05:45And it crushed a lady named Lillian.
05:47I've got an idea.
05:48It's going to be called Lloyd's.
05:49We're all going to be working at Lloyd's.
05:50We're just going to name it Lloyd's.
05:51We're all going to be working at a place called Lloyd's.
05:56I've updated my resume already.
05:59You better, because, listen, this sign crushed a lady named Lillian.
06:02It's usually quiet there at Denny's headquarters, too.
06:05It's just Grand Slam.
06:07Just drunk people fighting all the time, still.
06:09That's all that we have.
06:10We're going to have to raise the prices of the Grand Slam.
06:12Oh, my God.
06:13Everybody shut up.
06:14This is bigger than the eggs.
06:15This is crazy.
06:16This is bigger than the eggs.
06:17Exactly the egg crisis.
06:19Denny's sign fell on a lady named Lillian.
06:21Oh, damn you.
06:23Did you?
06:24Be honest with me.
06:25Yeah.
06:26Did you sell those bolts to pay for the eggs?
06:29Oh, my God.
06:30You did it.
06:31No, no, no.
06:32I'm sorry.
06:33I'm sorry, Lillian.
06:34We had to cut costs.
06:35I'm sorry.
06:36I hope I can continue to work here at Lloyd's.
06:40Welcome to Lloyd's.
06:42Yep.
06:46We'll name the pancakes Lillian.
06:50I'll get three Lillians.
06:52You can't call it the Lillian, Grand Slam.
06:54Are those Lillian cakes still on special?
06:55Oh, God.
06:56Lillian May Curtis, 72.
06:58They were on their way home from picking up Lloyd from the hospital after he had heart
07:03surgery when this happened.
07:04So he probably was, they were like, Lloyd, what would you love right now?
07:08Yeah.
07:08You've been in the hospital.
07:09What would you love?
07:09Denny's.
07:10Denny's.
07:11All right.
07:11The moon's over Miami.
07:12Yep.
07:12Let's go to Denny's.
07:13That's bad luck.
07:14That's bad luck.
07:15No bad luck.
07:16It's bad luck.
07:18It is.
07:18I mean, it's the worst.
07:21It's some of the worst luck I've ever seen in my life.
07:25It's some of the worst luck.
07:27Honestly, it is.
07:28There's ever been.
07:29Yeah.
07:29Look at the sign just, you know, she was in the back, right?
07:34She was in the back.
07:35She was in the back.
07:36She let her husband ride shotgun and she went in the back.
07:40Because the back of the car is gone.
07:43Lillian!
07:44Oh, no.
07:45Oh, no.
07:46Oh, no.
07:48That is horrible.
07:48You would look back.
07:50They were definitely okay enough to look back, weren't they?
07:53Yep.
07:53And see her just, Lillian.
07:56I don't know what would be even left.
07:58They had to be cut out of the car.
08:00Oh, man.
08:00Yeah.
08:01Oh, my God.
08:01I can't believe the size of that sign.
08:03I know.
08:04Honestly, when you see those signs all the time, I never would have guessed they would
08:07have weighed that much.
08:07Is that the one bolt that's holding it?
08:09Look at that.
08:10Yeah, there.
08:11It doesn't look great.
08:11Maybe any more than that?
08:12Yeah.
08:13Anybody was like, I think that sign's about to fall over.
08:16No.
08:18There's no way.
08:19Those must be.
08:19Yeah, it is.
08:20No, they've got to be held down crazy.
08:23They're not that big anyway.
08:26Just like, oh, it's so dark-sided.
08:29The last thing they saw was a hurtling Denny's sign.
08:32They didn't even see it.
08:34Oh, they probably, if it fell, if it came down behind them.
08:37Oh, my God.
08:38Oh, mighty.
08:39They're trying to drive away from Denny's.
08:44Lloyd.
08:45Lloyd's coming soon to a town near you.
08:47Listen, angels.
08:48Angels, I've come up with something.
08:51It's kind of crazy.
08:52Yes.
08:54I want Lillian.
08:56Okay.
08:57I'm going to drop a sign on her.
08:59That's how you want her to go into the beyond?
09:01Yes.
09:02I'm going to drop a giant 3,000 pound sign onto her.
09:05You're very mysterious.
09:06I know.
09:06I work in mysterious ways.
09:07That's a crazy one.
09:09That's a crazy one.
09:10I just came up with it.
09:11We'll loosen the bolts.
09:13Loosen them now, angels.
09:15And send in the wind.
09:16Sent in the wind.
09:18And then he's.
09:22There we go.
09:23That's terrible.
09:26That's terrible.